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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Kashiwazaki Nuclear Plant: Fukushima Governor stands in the way to stop restarting! 柏崎原発：再稼動させないよう立ちはだかる新潟県知事泉田氏

(Posted
by Mia on 17/11/13)

Niigata
Prefecture Governor Hirohiko Izumida said:
“I
would not accept the restart of Kashiwazaki nuclear power plant
unless Tepco gives a full investigation into the cause of the
Fukushima disaster, which should be a starting point that whether to
restart or not”
“They
will not be able to Vent radioactive gases without permission of
local residents” , this has been written in the application by
Tepco. Just knowing this fact, the Nuclear regulatory Authority
(NRA) wouldn't be able to make it pass. I would like to make this
fact clearly.”

Mr. Hirohiko Izumida

Mr.
Izumida had a meeting with the TEPCO president Hirose a couple times,
the first point was to criticize Tepco's decision to apply for the
restarting and the second point was reported as Mr. Izumida approved
of applying the safety regulations to the NRA. Since then, it has
been reported in Japanese and foreign media that Niigata prefecture
governor Izumida gave the green light towards restarting Kashiwazaki
Nuclear Power Plant.

Ever since the
nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, TEPCO has posted huge
annual losses for two consecutive fiscal years.The creditor
banks may stop providing loans if the utility reports a loss once
again for this fiscal year. TEPCO plans to return to the black in
this fiscal year by restarting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant.According to
its rehabilitation plan, TEPCO planned to resume operations at
reactors at the plant in phases from April.Hokkaido
Electric Power Co., Kansai Electric Power Co., Shikoku Electric Power
Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. have also submitted applications
for restarts for a total of 12 reactors as early as July 8 2014.

Taking
into account that the NRA needs about six months to screen an
application, TEPCO decided to apply for permission now, after
concluding that it will not be able to restart the reactors for
several years if it does not submit applications together with the
four other utilities.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307030055

BUT...

Despite there
being all sorts of pressures from pro nuclear groups Mr. Izumida
stands on his view firmly.. in his interview in Hodo Radio program
that he made clear he would not accept for restarting Kashiwazaki
nuclear power plant unless Tepco gave a full investigation on the
cause of the Fukushima disaster which should be a starting point that
whether to restart or not. He commented that he repeatedly saying
this point but never being reported in the media. So he appreciated
very much to be invited to this program to say it.

(Source)
http://kiikochan.blog136.fc2.com/blog-entry-3362.html報道するラジオ「原発再稼働をめぐる攻防・泉田裕彦・小出裕章・古賀茂明」25/10/13Talk
on “offense
and defense” (or battle) over restarting reactors with Niigata
Prefecture Governor Hirohiko Izumida, Prof. Hiroaki Koide at Kyoto
Nuclear Laboratory, former METI civil officer. Shigeaki Koga, Master
of the ceremony: Ms. Mizunohttp://youtu.be/OUwMpTIIDU0?t=35m49s(Abstract
translation by Mia)He has been
followed by a mysterious black car and he has had his personal life
checked by nuclear village to find any of his weakness. Apparently,
they couldn't find anything to tarnish his reputation or defeat his
views. So, they have been attacking his character instead by saying
untrue stories about him such as
“he is
strange”,
“he got
angry”,
“there must
had been various difficulties while he was working for the METI,
therefore he left it .....” Mr. Izumida had
requested to have a meeting with Mr. Tanaka, the head of the Nuclear
Regulatory Agency, however Mr. Tanaka has been rejecting his offer
with the reason that he doesn't normally have private meetings with
people from the utility companies that are checked by the Nuclear
Regulatory Agency because if he does he would be questioned of his
fairness and impartiality.
「審査をされる側の電力会社等々と密室で会うという事は公正中立性を疑われるんでやりません」This
from the same gentleman who said that he would happily have a private
meeting with Mr. Hirose, president of Tepco in the near future, which
seems contradictory. 水野：泉田知事、規制委員会が原発再稼働、安全審査でＯＫを出した時にはですね、地元としてはどうなります？
了承は必要ですが、その時は。When he was
asked what he would do if the Nuclear Regulatory Agency passed the
safety regulation, he said “If the NRA passes the safety
regulation for the Kashiwazaki Nuclear Plant, it would mean that the
NRA is not considering the safety of local citizens. Therefore, their
credibility would be very much questioned.
“The Vents
will not be able to be used without the permission of the local
residents” is written on the application by Tepco. With knowing
this fact NRS wouldn't be able to make it pass. I would like
everybody to know this fact.(Editor's note:
No reactor can be restarted without the permission by the prefecture
governor.)*Niigata
governor opposes nuke plant restarts, criticizes TEPCO 3/7/13http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307030055

Tepco
and the Japanese government announced in 2011 soon after the
Fukushima accident that explosions at reactor 1＆3
were a hydrogen explosion, however,
this hasn’t proved scientifically yet. It is important to
investigate at the scene to find out a cause of explosions before
clearing up highly radioactive debris from reactor buildings. But
Tepco started to clear up the debris at reactor 1 and 3 building from
this summer.

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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

ＧＥＮＥＲＡＬ ＩＮＦＯＲＭＡＴＩＯＮ

Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.